Improvement in tag-fasteners



C. C. STEVENS.

TAG-FASTENER.

No.175 ,192. Patented March 21,1876.

m VEJV'TOR .dttorneys.

WITNESSES FHEK. WASHINGTDN. D ,c.

N- FETERS, PHOTO-LITMOGRA U ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES C. STEVENS, OF AURORA, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN TAG-FASTENERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1 75,192, dated March21, 1876; application filed February 10, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, C. C. STEVENS, of Aurora, in the county of Dearbornand in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Tag Fast ener; and do hereby declare that thefollowingis a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accom pan ying drawings and to the letters of referencemarked thereon, making a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the peculiar construction of ametallic fastening for tags on dry-goods, as will be hereinafter moreparticularly described.

In the accom pan ying drawings, making part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a per spective view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinalsection.

In the figures, A represents the metallic plate, which forms thefastening. This plate is made ofsuitable width, and bent, as seen-in lig. 2, there being a bend at a: and one at w, and the two ends of theplate one overlapping the other. i represents the overlapping end, whichhasa V-shaped tongue punched inward, and at an angle of about forty-fivedegrees.

The overlapped end it has a hole punched in it opposite the tongue 6.

Inusing this metallic fastening, to which the tag is fastened by meansof a string or any' usual manner, the clothis placed between the twoends a" and n. The end i is then pressed sothat its tongue c will enterthe cloth, and then the opening at in the end n, and be clinched againstthe side m of the plate. This device makes a simple and cheap clamp fordry-goods for holding the tags on same.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim-as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The within-described tag-fastening, formed of a single plate of metal,with one portion of it, n, bent and extended in between the parts m i,the part n having an opening, 01, and the part i having a tongue, 0, asshown and described- In testimony that I claim the foregoing 'I havehereunto set my hand this 27th day of January, 1876.

CHARLES CARROLL STEVENS. Witnesses:

MIRABEAU N. LYNN, NATHAN STEDMAN.

